The Women
A FILM BY The Maw Naing
PRODUCTION GRANT - SPRING 2020
In 2014, Mi-Thet’s father gets forcefully arrested and goes missing. Mi-Thet (18) entrusts her two younger siblings to the neighbors and heads off to Yangon to earn a living.
Mi-Thet started working at a Chinese sewing factory in Yangon, but fails to get paid for two months. One of her colleagues initiates a strike movement. However, Mi-Thet fears and hesitates to join the strike.
One day, one of her roommates commits suicide in the dormitory. Shocked by this, Mi-Thet for the first time starts to come to terms with the gravity of the dark reality she facing. Mi-Thet joins the strike, one night, she comes face to face with her trauma at the strike camp. She returns to the dormitory in fear. While staying in the dormitory, she gets acquainted with Ko-Tun (50’s) who had long been imprisoned for being a student leader of a democratization movement, she becomes more mature both intellectually and emotionally.
Mi-Thet eagerly joins the strike again, but the camp gets attacked by a gang hired by the factory, many returns to the factory, but the factory receiving their signatures on the unfair contract.
Mi-Thet and the other strikers begin distributing that information to the media. After an article appears in a foreign newspaper, Mi-Thet and other strikers are involved in a car crash, and 12 out of them are killed, including Mi-Thet.
As time goes on, it is revealed to the world that the accident wasn’t an accident after all.